Headines are blasting out: “Fear of Terrorism Grips the Country.” And “Terrorist Attack Boosts Trump.”
I don’t get it. We’ve had two terrorist attacks, separated by a fourteen year gap. In this latest in San Bernardino fourteen people died. Everyone should be concerned but this panic whipping across the land is just not rational.
Close to 35,000 people die every year in the US from guns and tens of thousands of others are wounded. Yet everyone seems to accept this as “normal.” Why isn’t there a long howl of outrage over this? Why aren’t we in a state of fear and trepidation? Your chance of getting gunned down by some random character with a gun and an attitude, or a gun and a mental disorder, or a gun and a grudge or a gun and no clue about gun safety or a … is thousands of times more likely than being caught up in a terrorist attack.
Color me confused.